Choose a destination drive and click on Create. The progress of your floppy disk
creation will be shown in this window. When the floppy disk is ready, the following
window will appear:
Click on OK. Your floppy disk is ready for recovery.
However, if the user has a SCSI CD-ROM drive, you must also add the SCSI drivers
to the floppy, as described in the next section.
Adding SCSI CD-ROM Drivers
The Disaster Recovery Boot Floppy provides broad support for EIDE CD-ROM
drives. In order to support SCSI CD-ROM drives, however, a driver for the particular
SCSI controller used in the client system must be added to the DR Boot Floppy.
Which particular DOS SCSI driver (also known as 'ASPI Manager') to use depends
on the particular manufacturer and model of SCSI controller.
At the time of writing, Adaptec provide DOS SCSI drivers and information on at the
following URL:
http://www.adaptec.com/support/faqs/dosdrvraccess.html
Symbios provide DOS SCSI drivers and information on at the following URL:
http://www.symbios.com/products/techsupp/drivers/pci-sw.html#dos5.0
Many other SCSI controller manufacturers also provide DOS SCSI drivers for the
products on their websites.
A generic procedure for adding DOS SCSI drivers to the Disaster Recovery Boot
Disk Creation
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